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Oracle Offers Free ILM Tool
February 26, 2007
Oracle announced Feb. 26 the general availability of Oracle Information
Lifecycle Management Assistant, a free tool company officials contend will help
users of Oracle Database 10g store and manage data in a more cost-efficient
manner.
"The reality is today organizations can no longer afford to
use high-end storage for all the data in storage," said Willie Hardie,
vice president of database product marketing at Oracle, in an interview with
eWEEK.
A recent study of members of the IOUG (Independent Oracle User
Group) found 92 percent of respondents expect their database storage needs to
increase in 2007.
To meet this growth, 64 percent said they will increase their
spending on storage, according to the report, which was produced by Unisphere
Research. By implementing an ILM strategy, customers can cut storage costs by
keeping a minimum amount of data on high-cost storage devices, Hardie said.
In addition, Oracle ILM Assistant allows users to define life
cycles—when it is time to move or purge data—allowing for the
maximum quantity of data to be retained at the lowest cost.
"Oracle's ILM Assistant will help users better manage data
by automatically putting the right types of data on the right tiers of
storage," said
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database.
"From a data lifecycle perspective, archiving infrequently
used data to offline media while ensuring data specifically needed for
compliancy never gets permanently deleted is very beneficial for business
operations," he said.
In addition, Oracle ILM Assistant features simulated table
partitioning, storage cost modeling and reports on security and compliance features in use.
Oracle's query optimization technology avoids referencing
partitions containing data not required to process application queries, company
officials said.
As a result, performance does not degrade as the database
expands, company officials said. Oracle Database 10g also features table
compression technology designed to help further lower storage costs.
"The big technical advantage Oracle ILM Assistant provides
is an easy-to-use interface to classify data, classify storage tiers, tie them
together, and provide the underlying technology such as partitions and triggers
to implement these business rules," Kaplan said. "Companies with more
tables, more classes of data, and more tiers of storage will see more
technology manageability benefits."
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